Raunak Shrestha
Assistant Professor at Uniformed Services University
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRaunak Shrestha is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with 13 years of experience applying computational genomics to understand cancer progression and treatment resistance. Trained with a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia, he has held postdoctoral and research roles at UCSF and the Vancouver Prostate Centre before joining the Center for Prostate Disease Research and Uniformed Services University. His work blends data science and cancer genomics to translate large-scale sequencing and bioinformatics methods into insights about therapy failure and tumor evolution. Based in Rockville, MD, he combines academic rigor with hands-on tool development—maintaining a public web portfolio of his projects. Notably, his trajectory from Nepalese biotech labs to North American genomics centers underscores a persistent focus on building computational solutions that address real clinical questions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelors of Technology, Biotechnology, Bachelors of Technology, Biotechnology at Kathmandu University
Github Skills (26)
bioinformatics7
outliers7
seq7
occupancy7
fuel7
prediction6
summarize6
testing6
cancer-genomics6
factor5
genomics5
segmentation5
transcription5
signal3
maf3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
raunakms/covid19nepal
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:75 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
raunakms/GESD
May 2016 - Jul 2019
Generalized Extreme Studentized Deviate (GESD) test to detect outliers
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 2 months
outlierstestingdetectextreme
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